Frettiness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being fretty; fretfulness. uncountable

    "He carries on operations upon so vast a scale that he casts out frettiness and meanness wherever he goes."

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"He carries on operations upon so vast a scale that he casts out frettiness and meanness wherever he goes."

Etymology

From fretty + -ness.

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